Healthcare workers spend a lot of time caring for others and this festive season staff members are using music to bring a smile to their colleagues’ faces.
Mackay HHS staff members Robyn Cathcart and Sharon Heaslip are the dynamic duo behind enhancing staff health and wellbeing through music with the annual ukulele singalong.
“Today we simply had a bit of a singalong of some old time favourites. I suppose you could call it our version of carolling,” Robyn said.
“I brought my three ukes, staff who have a uke also brought theirs and our very own country music star Sharon was responsible for the singing.”
Back by popular demand the performance has become an annual event as part of the Mackay HHS staff wellbeing program machhs.
“Last year when Sharon and I performed for the first time we received very positive feedback from staff who said that it made them feel happy,” she said.
“We take a very collaborative approach and staff come during their lunchbreaks to hit the pause button and be entertained.
“The performance is becoming more and more popular each year with a full house turning out today.”
Robyn started playing the uke four years ago for her own wellbeing using the tiny instrument as a destressing mechanism as well as improving her guitar skills.
“The uke is easy to play and a happy instrument and you notice when people play they smile a lot and they forget their worries for a while,” she said.
“Music can stimulate the body’s natural feel good chemicals, it can help energise our mood and even help us work through problems.
“As the saying goes; if everyone played the uke there would be world peace.”
Congratulations to country music superstar Sharon Heaslip for recently winning the award for Female Vocal at the Gidgee Coal Bush Ballad Awards in Pittworth, Darling Downs.
